College note

Executive director of USC/Columbia Technology Incubator re-elected to national board

Joel Stevenson, executive director of the University of South Carolina/Columbia Technology Incubator, has been re-elected to the board of directors of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA). His second three-year term begins Oct. 1.

Stevenson has directed the USC/Columbia Technology Incubator since 1999. During his tenure, the incubator has nurtured 90 companies, helping them to raise more than $37 million in investment capital. As a result, the program has helped create 707 jobs, 202 of which are minority jobs.

The NBIA (www.nbia.org) is the world’s leading organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.